Rogerman
@rogerman99.bsky.social
Late boomer/Early genxr. Born in Winnipeg. Raised in Mississauga. Heart in Tidnish. Been a lot of places. Life made me better. Woke AF.
He/Him. Please don't hit me up with chat.
He/Him. Please don't hit me up with chat.
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Russia and China just sent long-range bombers and fighter jets into South Korea’s air defense zone, forcing Seoul to scramble jets. A clear sign they are tightening military cooperation and testing US allies, jointly challenging the US.
December 9, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Russia and China just sent long-range bombers and fighter jets into South Korea’s air defense zone, forcing Seoul to scramble jets. A clear sign they are tightening military cooperation and testing US allies, jointly challenging the US.
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China’s exports jumped 5.9 percent in November while shipments to the US collapsed by 29 percent. The admin drove our top trade partners to China, and Beijing is rerouting trade to Southeast Asia, Latin America, Africa and the EU while the US loses leverage.
December 9, 2025 at 1:36 PM
China’s exports jumped 5.9 percent in November while shipments to the US collapsed by 29 percent. The admin drove our top trade partners to China, and Beijing is rerouting trade to Southeast Asia, Latin America, Africa and the EU while the US loses leverage.
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Under Former Chemical Industry Insiders, Trump EPA Nearly Doubles Amount of Formaldehyde Considered Safe to Inhale.
December 9, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Under Former Chemical Industry Insiders, Trump EPA Nearly Doubles Amount of Formaldehyde Considered Safe to Inhale.
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Mia is wonderful, and you can read her feature today for free!
New from me: The internet promised the democratization of information, power, and expression. Now there are vanishingly few ways to be online that don't involve being a billboard.
I wrote about the weird — and sometimes devastating — experience of being *influenced*
www.theverge.com/cs/features/...
I wrote about the weird — and sometimes devastating — experience of being *influenced*
www.theverge.com/cs/features/...
Confessions of the influenced
Behind every influencer is an army of the people mired in debt and mass-produced clutter.
www.theverge.com
December 9, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Mia is wonderful, and you can read her feature today for free!
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this perfectly captures this entire administration’s “the emperor has no clothes” energy
we are all expected to pretend this man is the King of Health, and he himself believes it, which is why he confidently in front of witnesses attempted a thing he cannot do, knowing they will all say that he did
we are all expected to pretend this man is the King of Health, and he himself believes it, which is why he confidently in front of witnesses attempted a thing he cannot do, knowing they will all say that he did
December 9, 2025 at 10:22 AM
this perfectly captures this entire administration’s “the emperor has no clothes” energy
we are all expected to pretend this man is the King of Health, and he himself believes it, which is why he confidently in front of witnesses attempted a thing he cannot do, knowing they will all say that he did
we are all expected to pretend this man is the King of Health, and he himself believes it, which is why he confidently in front of witnesses attempted a thing he cannot do, knowing they will all say that he did
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Really good investigation from Byline, looking at the far-right connections between an anti-migrant group claiming to be led by "ordinary women"
Not the only one to do so either, members of the Women's Safety Initiative also have extreme connections:
goodlawproject.org/dodgy-statis...
Not the only one to do so either, members of the Women's Safety Initiative also have extreme connections:
goodlawproject.org/dodgy-statis...
December 5, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Really good investigation from Byline, looking at the far-right connections between an anti-migrant group claiming to be led by "ordinary women"
Not the only one to do so either, members of the Women's Safety Initiative also have extreme connections:
goodlawproject.org/dodgy-statis...
Not the only one to do so either, members of the Women's Safety Initiative also have extreme connections:
goodlawproject.org/dodgy-statis...
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I’d love to say I was surprised to see a caravan of neo-Nazis rolling through Little Rock like it was a reboot of Idiocracy, but here we are: December 6th, 2025, the day “Blood Tribe” decided to cosplay the Third Reich in Walmart-red T-shirts and Dollar Store swastika flags.
www.kark.com
December 9, 2025 at 12:21 PM
I’d love to say I was surprised to see a caravan of neo-Nazis rolling through Little Rock like it was a reboot of Idiocracy, but here we are: December 6th, 2025, the day “Blood Tribe” decided to cosplay the Third Reich in Walmart-red T-shirts and Dollar Store swastika flags.
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While Duffy is talking about pull up bars while you are all dressed up in airport terminals you can see all the actual airport terminal improvements funded my the Biden Administration’s Infrastructure Law here 👇 as part of a thread about actual important things done for passengers.
🚨 Most important part yet 🚨
Below 👇 is a list of all the airport terminal improvement projects given grants under the Airport Terminal Program as part of the Infrastructure Act. Don’t let any Republican take credit for them. The FY2025 ones are from 2024. Slow the video to read the improvements.
Below 👇 is a list of all the airport terminal improvement projects given grants under the Airport Terminal Program as part of the Infrastructure Act. Don’t let any Republican take credit for them. The FY2025 ones are from 2024. Slow the video to read the improvements.
December 9, 2025 at 1:48 AM
While Duffy is talking about pull up bars while you are all dressed up in airport terminals you can see all the actual airport terminal improvements funded my the Biden Administration’s Infrastructure Law here 👇 as part of a thread about actual important things done for passengers.
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"At which point we're going to blow them out of the fucking skies."
Melania Trump: "Santa's reindeer -- Rudolph, Dasher, Comet, all of them -- they're resting in the North Pole. They need to save all of their energy for their great flight around the world on Christmas Eve. Santa told me they're snuggling beneath warm, fluffy blankets."
December 8, 2025 at 6:35 PM
"At which point we're going to blow them out of the fucking skies."
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Only ten minutes into the new @ifbookspod.bsky.social and have laughed out loud several times already.
Spoiler alert: Elon Musk is a compulsive liar with a sketchy background.
podcasts.apple.com/se/podcast/i...
Spoiler alert: Elon Musk is a compulsive liar with a sketchy background.
podcasts.apple.com/se/podcast/i...
Elon Musk
Poddavsnitt · If Books Could Kill · 2025-12-09 · 1 tim 28 min
podcasts.apple.com
December 9, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Only ten minutes into the new @ifbookspod.bsky.social and have laughed out loud several times already.
Spoiler alert: Elon Musk is a compulsive liar with a sketchy background.
podcasts.apple.com/se/podcast/i...
Spoiler alert: Elon Musk is a compulsive liar with a sketchy background.
podcasts.apple.com/se/podcast/i...
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Welcome to Britain, a country so short of dentists that an MP's 87-year-old mum pulled her teeth out with pliers. Also a country with thousands of foreign-qualified dentists who can’t work until they pass an exam so oversubscribed it’s like trying to book Glasto tickets. www.ft.com/content/f4e5...
December 9, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Welcome to Britain, a country so short of dentists that an MP's 87-year-old mum pulled her teeth out with pliers. Also a country with thousands of foreign-qualified dentists who can’t work until they pass an exam so oversubscribed it’s like trying to book Glasto tickets. www.ft.com/content/f4e5...
Doug Ford didn't have to spend 15 yrs breaking the courts and the military like Erdogan. He has the Notwithstanding Clause. He didn't have to spend 10 yrs compromising and controlling the media. Plutocrats already concentrated and controlled all of it, save the CBC. #onpoli
bsky.app/profile/donm...
bsky.app/profile/donm...
One theme here is the speed of American institutional collapse.
“It took Erdoğan 15 years to do what Trump did in 100 days. If [Americans] do not accept the fact that this is a long game, and it will be brutal, I think you won’t have the patience and stamina to bear it.”
“It took Erdoğan 15 years to do what Trump did in 100 days. If [Americans] do not accept the fact that this is a long game, and it will be brutal, I think you won’t have the patience and stamina to bear it.”
We asked activists from authoritarian regimes what they wish they’d known sooner. Here’s what they said www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
December 9, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Doug Ford didn't have to spend 15 yrs breaking the courts and the military like Erdogan. He has the Notwithstanding Clause. He didn't have to spend 10 yrs compromising and controlling the media. Plutocrats already concentrated and controlled all of it, save the CBC. #onpoli
bsky.app/profile/donm...
bsky.app/profile/donm...
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Once again, entirely the fault of politicians who, having restored income-per-student to its 1970s level in real terms, then, for more than a decade, refused to increase that with inflation, until its value had been eroded by more than half, & unis were making a significant loss on every UK student.
Apropos of nothing: it is astonishingly clear how badly the marketisation of UK universities has failed. The architects of the fee system have enabled a system where half of institutions are no longer financially viable www.officeforstudents.org.uk/for-provider...
December 9, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Once again, entirely the fault of politicians who, having restored income-per-student to its 1970s level in real terms, then, for more than a decade, refused to increase that with inflation, until its value had been eroded by more than half, & unis were making a significant loss on every UK student.
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It did and it is. Including but certainly not limited to the sky high dictator caricature levels of corruption. Trump and his gang have made the Marcos family look small time in a very short period of time. You can claim American exceptionalism exists. Emphasis on claim
I think one of the biggest reasons it’s happening here is that many people still believe it can’t happen here.
One theme here is the speed of American institutional collapse.
“It took Erdoğan 15 years to do what Trump did in 100 days. If [Americans] do not accept the fact that this is a long game, and it will be brutal, I think you won’t have the patience and stamina to bear it.”
“It took Erdoğan 15 years to do what Trump did in 100 days. If [Americans] do not accept the fact that this is a long game, and it will be brutal, I think you won’t have the patience and stamina to bear it.”
December 9, 2025 at 12:26 PM
It did and it is. Including but certainly not limited to the sky high dictator caricature levels of corruption. Trump and his gang have made the Marcos family look small time in a very short period of time. You can claim American exceptionalism exists. Emphasis on claim
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As we see with the UK media consensus today to depict an entirely vindicated trans woman victim of harassment as somehow a lurking villain, concentrated media power is literally reality-shaping.
ICYMI: this is very obviously a crisis every bit as emergent - and indivisible from - climate breakdown.
The Seven Richest Billionaires Are All Media Barons
Alan MacLeod tracks how billionaire media barons like Musk, Ellison, Bezos and Zuckerberg are capturing global news outlets and reshaping politics.
www.mintpressnews.com
December 9, 2025 at 12:50 PM
As we see with the UK media consensus today to depict an entirely vindicated trans woman victim of harassment as somehow a lurking villain, concentrated media power is literally reality-shaping.
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One theme here is the speed of American institutional collapse.
“It took Erdoğan 15 years to do what Trump did in 100 days. If [Americans] do not accept the fact that this is a long game, and it will be brutal, I think you won’t have the patience and stamina to bear it.”
“It took Erdoğan 15 years to do what Trump did in 100 days. If [Americans] do not accept the fact that this is a long game, and it will be brutal, I think you won’t have the patience and stamina to bear it.”
We asked activists from authoritarian regimes what they wish they’d known sooner. Here’s what they said www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
We asked activists from authoritarian regimes what they wish they’d known sooner. Here’s what they said
Activists from Hungary, El Salvador and Turkey offer advice to the US about what they’ve learned about authoritarians
www.theguardian.com
December 9, 2025 at 12:19 PM
One theme here is the speed of American institutional collapse.
“It took Erdoğan 15 years to do what Trump did in 100 days. If [Americans] do not accept the fact that this is a long game, and it will be brutal, I think you won’t have the patience and stamina to bear it.”
“It took Erdoğan 15 years to do what Trump did in 100 days. If [Americans] do not accept the fact that this is a long game, and it will be brutal, I think you won’t have the patience and stamina to bear it.”
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December 9, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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This is Hugh Thompson Jr., the U.S. Army pilot who stopped the Mỹ Lai massacre by landing his helicopter between soldiers and civilians
December 8, 2025 at 12:37 PM
This is Hugh Thompson Jr., the U.S. Army pilot who stopped the Mỹ Lai massacre by landing his helicopter between soldiers and civilians
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More than that, his crew threatened to open fire on the murderers. He rescued civilians, returned to base to refuel, flew back, and rescued more civilians. Then he denounced the crimes to his HQ.
For all this he received death-threats throughout his life.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Th....
For all this he received death-threats throughout his life.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Th....
December 8, 2025 at 12:44 PM
More than that, his crew threatened to open fire on the murderers. He rescued civilians, returned to base to refuel, flew back, and rescued more civilians. Then he denounced the crimes to his HQ.
For all this he received death-threats throughout his life.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Th....
For all this he received death-threats throughout his life.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Th....
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Here's everything I've done so far on broligarchy, all in one place, starting with my Inauguration Day interview on @thedailyshow.com with Jon Stewart, through multiple BlueSky threads on the subject, some other interviews & a couple articles in @theatlantic.com. 1/9
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvCm...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvCm...
Brooke Harrington - Trump’s “Broligarchy” of Tech Billionaires | The Daily Show
YouTube video by The Daily Show
www.youtube.com
January 23, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Here's everything I've done so far on broligarchy, all in one place, starting with my Inauguration Day interview on @thedailyshow.com with Jon Stewart, through multiple BlueSky threads on the subject, some other interviews & a couple articles in @theatlantic.com. 1/9
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvCm...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvCm...
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What the Epstein files show is the *solidarity* of many men-across class, race, religion, profession & party affiliation-in the global political project of keeping the boot on women's necks.
People have no problem understanding class solidarity among the rich. Why can't they see gender solidarity?
People have no problem understanding class solidarity among the rich. Why can't they see gender solidarity?
Like I dunno, maybe the reason it took a lady to break open the story of all the men protecting the dude trafficking underage girls is because the male journos were all emailing him making jokes about it?
November 12, 2025 at 9:09 PM
What the Epstein files show is the *solidarity* of many men-across class, race, religion, profession & party affiliation-in the global political project of keeping the boot on women's necks.
People have no problem understanding class solidarity among the rich. Why can't they see gender solidarity?
People have no problem understanding class solidarity among the rich. Why can't they see gender solidarity?
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The eu all of a sudden
November 21, 2025 at 6:31 AM
The eu all of a sudden
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All Russian assets in the West have been activated to attack the EU
December 6, 2025 at 8:14 PM
All Russian assets in the West have been activated to attack the EU
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A Palantir billionaire just called for public hangings.
“It's time to bring back masculine leadership to protect our most vulnerable,” writes Joe Lonsdale.
This is where Silicon Valley authoritarianism is heading:
www.thenerdreich.com/joe-lonsdale...
“It's time to bring back masculine leadership to protect our most vulnerable,” writes Joe Lonsdale.
This is where Silicon Valley authoritarianism is heading:
www.thenerdreich.com/joe-lonsdale...
Joe Lonsdale Calls For Public Hangings
Silicon Valley radicalization escalates
www.thenerdreich.com
December 6, 2025 at 9:15 PM
A Palantir billionaire just called for public hangings.
“It's time to bring back masculine leadership to protect our most vulnerable,” writes Joe Lonsdale.
This is where Silicon Valley authoritarianism is heading:
www.thenerdreich.com/joe-lonsdale...
“It's time to bring back masculine leadership to protect our most vulnerable,” writes Joe Lonsdale.
This is where Silicon Valley authoritarianism is heading:
www.thenerdreich.com/joe-lonsdale...
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ESA relies on SpaceX a lot unfortunately, we need more financing for ESA so that it can become more independent from both NASA and Musk
December 6, 2025 at 10:53 PM
ESA relies on SpaceX a lot unfortunately, we need more financing for ESA so that it can become more independent from both NASA and Musk